Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-13

Shall Richmond Give IL Up or Not?
The VIRGINIA STATE AGRIcUL-)

TURAL SOCIETY,
RICHMOND, VA, November II, 1887. )
To the E'ditOr Of the Dispatch
Referring to your remarks on Mr..
Starke's second card in tins mornings
edition you say "Unless Richmond
shows some spirit in this matter ii. C.,
the building of the Exposition Hall
"the Virginia State Agricultural Society
will never hold another fair here"
don't know whether you mean that
this society may hold an exhibition IN
some other city or that the society will
be unable to hold one dnywhcre. 1T ex-
plieitly says "will never hold another
fair here "--Disp0tch. But for the
well-established fact of the interest and
friendship your paper has always shown
this society, and the material aid 1t has
given it, | should feel like crying out
deliUer rs from our frjends when such
sentiments as this are uttered intimating
that the Virginia State Agricultural So
ciety is ruined and unable to continue It's
exhibitions simply because under the
most adverse circumstances ever expe-
rienced since its existence it has made
the most creditable exhibit | have known
in twenty years with only loss Of about
g., 900, which We hope will leave IN the
treasury 800 or $500.
Now [ am willing TO assert as O plain
business proposition that nothing can be
more absurd than to suppose that any
organization or individual with a recog-
nized capital or real property of the
value OF 500, 900, and only a debt of
$50. 900, should be incapacitnted from
continuing in business simply on account
of loss of about s., 500, especially
when our liability is held by so lenient
and friendly a creditor as the city OF
Richmond, which has heretofore and
viii ever aid and foster this society.
which has always paid back in increased
prosperity tenfold every dollar given by
the city,
No businessman with the above assets
and liabilities would be embarrassed for
amoment by a loss of $500, and pre-.
dict that if the Executive Committee
with it's recent admirable additions to its
body will take hold and manage its al
fairs in business-iike manner, manifest
ing that interest which their positions re-
ouire of them, and faithfully performing
each duty which devolves upon them,
that we will make next years exhibition
as far surpass that OF this year as il did
those of previous years, and with propi-
tious weather and the earnest support OF
it's friends the society will not only re-
cover the small losses OF this year,
z hnk a11 30 nantkol Knit
do this requires work and good
business Judgment, with economy.
In many departments this year our ex-
hibits were seriously curtailed through
want of space for exhibitors. The citi-
zens OF Richmond should take lesson
from the enthusiastic and liberal spirit
which has manifested itself in the city
OF Augusta, Ga, about one third as
large as Richmond, whose iberal-spirited
citizens, proposing to raise S75,OO to
build an exposition hall, subscribed
within twenty hours $4,000, as we
learned rom the Augusta Chronicle OF
the 10th instant Now, will this pros
porous and enterprising city OF nearly
huudredthousand inhabitants be eclipsed
by Augusta. GAP
| trust that your suggestion will be
adopted to call meeting OF the citizens
OF the city and take such steps at once
as VIII insure the success OF our own
exposition scheme, so ably placed be-
fore the people by our new president
A. X. VESABLE, JR.. Secretary.
GThe above is all very well in its way !;
but all the same the Dispatch has 1t